I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.